TWENTY-FIVE
With her heart pounding in her chest, Sassi tried her best to fill her captain in. Where she struggled, Stuart leapt in to pad out the details until he’d taken over telling the story completely. Jockey asked questions, Swain brooded, and eventually everything came out. She and Stuart confessed everything from their father’s debt to Dario’s demands where their trouble had started.
She told him about Karen and how she’d gotten the job with him, and how the siblings had decided it best to keep distance from those who could be used against them. They talked about Stuart breaking up with Karen and Sassi learned some new details about what Stuart had been up to while she was at sea.
The story culminated in that day with her dropping off the baked goods, Dario’s men, and what had h
